For many years those working in general practice have pointed out that as, increasingly, all but the more trivial aspects of medicine tend to be carried out in the hospital rather than in the home, so the life of the family doctor has progressively been deprived of interest and his prestige lowered.

These notes descriptionbe the steps which had been taken to cope with the epidemic of so-called Eastern or Asiatic influenza on the mines of the Central Mining-Rand Mines Group during July-August 1957.